during dental education, dental students learn how to examine patients, make diagnosis, plan treatment and perform dental procedures perfectly and efficiently. however, progresses in computer-based technologies including virtual reality (vr) simulators, augmented reality (ar) and computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing (cad/cam) systems have resulted in new modalities for instruction...

Computer-aided three-dimensional interactive application (CATIA) was originally developed by Dassault Systems to design and manufacture complex geometries for jet fighters. Lately, it has been adopted as a multi-platform 3-D product life cycle management solution and is used widely as a design platform in several industries, including the automobile, aerospace, ship-building, and consumer elect...

This panel will discuss a rapidly expanding application area of databases: Computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM). CAD is playing an important role in diverse fields such as logic design, printed wiring board design, chemical process control, structural engineering, architecture, aircraft and automobile design, design of mechanisms, cartography, etc. On the one hand, all these applic...

background: the aim of this study was to determine the microtensile bond strength (μtbs) of ceramic and composite computer aided design‑computer aided manufacturing (cad‑cam) blocks bonded to dentin using different adhesive strategies. materials and methods: in this in vitro study, 30 crowns of sound freshly extracted human molars were sectioned horizontally 3 mm above the cementoenamel junctio...

This paper presents techniques of integrating haptic device into computer-aided design and manufacturing. The methodology is proposed as three steps: 1) develop the virtual sculpting system for aiding product design; 2) convert the product design into acceptable form for downstream manufacturing or rapid prototyping; 3) develop multi-axis polyhedral machining planning system with haptic input. ...